Thank you, Mr. Petten.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
Mr. Petten just talked about the volunteers, and that's exactly one purpose of our meetings--to talk not just about just wharfs and infrastructure but about the concerns expressed around volunteering. We've heard before from witnesses about volunteer fatigue, not only with harbour authorities but with many volunteer groups in all our communities. That's certainly another aspect, a different aspect, that we need to have a look at through our report also.
The process here, witnesses, is that basically we have a round of questions. We give ten minutes to the opposition, the Liberal Party; seven to the Bloc; five to the NDP; and ten to our party. Then if we need to go around again and do another round of questions, we break up the time into five minutes each.
Mr. MacAulay, I think you're going to lead off our questions this afternoon.